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<h3>Help Menu</h3>

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The Help menu items can be used to display information on a variety of topics.
Each item corresponds to a .html file in the Help folder.
The information is displayed in the Help Pane which behaves like a simplified browser.

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<font size=+1><b>Keyboard shortcuts</b></font>

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These keyboard shortcuts can be used when the Help Pane has the focus:

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<li> Hit "[" to go back or "]" to go forwards.
<li> Hit the home key to go to the Contents page.
<li> Hit the arrow keys or page up/down keys if a scroll bar appears.
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<font size=+1><b>Special links</b></font>

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The Help Pane supports a number of Ready-specific links:

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<li> <b>edit:</b><i>file</i><br>
Open the given file in your <a href="prefs:file">preferred text editor</a>.
A non-absolute path is relative to the location of the Ready application.

<li> <b>open:</b><i>file</i><br>
Load the given pattern.
A non-absolute path is relative to the location of the Ready application.
Ready will open the file in your text editor by control-clicking or
right-clicking on the link.

<li> <b>prefs:</b><i>pane</i><br>
Open the Preferences dialog at the given pane.  The pane string must
be lowercase and must match a known pane: file, edit, view, etc.

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